The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-28
In Brief.


The Emmett Guards will run an excursion to
Louisville on Sunday Aug. {.
The Council committee on streets and alleys
have been called to meet at the city clerks Office
this evening
Albert Schmidt. of this city. who won the
running race between Turnversin gymnasts at
Dayton. covered $50 feet. instead of sixty yards.
in pa seconds
The fire departments called out at l
o'clock last night by q small blaze in Carey's
cooper shop on West street Tho ire was ex-
tinguished before the department arrived. The
loss was small.
The Michigan City Sash and Door Company
Incorporated yesterday. The capital stock
is twenty thousand dollars. and the directors are
J. S. Hopper. W. G. Wilson. George Paxton
George Rawson and Christian Wells.
horse from the stable of John Scudder, at
tached to a buggy and driven by two ladies' ran
away North Delaware street last night, and
for q time it looked like the ladies would be bad
ly hurt They managed to keep their places in
the buggy until the horse was stopped near
Michigan street
PRISON SEWER CONDEMNED
Governor Gray has received from the health Of
icers of LaPorte county communication stat
ing that they have condemned the sewer running
from the penitentiary at Michigan City. The
Governor will ask the prison officials to give the
matter their attention at once.
KNOCKED A WASHER DOWN.
Charles Raugh was passing along Washing
when two young men, standing at the corner of
Washington and Meridian streets. made some
isulting remark to of the young ladies. Mr..
Raugh knocked the impairment fellow down,
and the police. who near by. said he did
the right thing.
IMPORTATION OF FINE HORSES.
Col ]. A Brideand landed yesterday at
New York with fifty nine head of horses and
mares. including few Shetland ponies. all of
uhi hei YnrO for hraa
were shipped to this city by way of the Erie
railway. This is his second importation this
year. The stock belongs to Col. Bridgland and
Mr.. Barry. and will be sent to the stock farm of
the latter, south of the city.
THE ToMLINsoN HALL RESTAURANT PRIVILEGE
The restaurant privilege under Tomlinson Hall
sold at auction yesterday morning. and was
purchased by W. E. Kelly for $500. There
misunderstanding among the bidders to the
length of time the lease is run. and the privi-
lege will probably have to be resold 1t was the
understanding of Mr.. Kelly that the lease COW
cred period of three years, but the market
committee claims that it only until next
May. Mr.. Kelly says under that arrangement
he will not pay in his money.
DISAPPEARANCE OF A FRUIT DEALER
Adam Bretz, the fruit dealer at No 16S Vir-
GINA avenue, has been mysterously absent
from his home since Tuesday evening. Between
and o'clock that evening he hired horse
-
from his place of business. He out about
hour and returned the rig Since he
left the stable he has not been seen by any of
his friends. He is known to have had consid-
able amount of money his person, and that
fact adds TO the belief that he has been foully
dealt with. He is married man. with two
children, and has always been regular in his
habits. The police spent yesterday searching
for him, but found no traces of him.
GOT IN TROUBLE BY AIDING DETECTIVES.
BERTHE Eads was arrested last evening on the
charge of stealing some articles of clothing
from Matte Reid. She living with the Reid
at the the time her residence
burned, and is the prosecuting witness against
John Stull, awaiting trial for burning the house.
The clothing she had in her posses
sion she procured three
months ago for Hobbs & Lloyd, the
detectives TO be used IN evidence against Mrs.
Reid and Mrs. Srull in the trial. She Gays that
effort has been made toiinfuence her to
fuse to tel. what she knows about the burning of
the house, and because she refused to comply
with the request she was arrested, with the hope
of getting her out of the way before the trial
comes off. The girl is a niece of Captain Eads,
the great ship builder.
EXCHANGING EXPERIENCE FOR CAPITAL.
Charles E. Evans Californian, who with
his wife, came here several months ago and en-
gagged in the business of making and selling
fluid extracts. Is unaccountably absent and, it
condition. About month ago he advertised
for partner with $500 capital. and William
Cory, of Wabash. accepted his proposition and
paid over the $500. A few days after they be-
gan business together they went out tour
through the country. At Franklin. Evans left
Cory to go TO Columbus, as he said, and has not
been heard from since. When Cory returned to
the CITY he found two men, named Conner and
Booth who claimed they had each purchased half
interest in Evans's business, one paying him $780,
the other 5000. Cory claimed a prior right
half the stock, and packing it up, went back to
Wabash. Mrs. Evans is still in the city. She
does not attribute her husbands flight to any
crookedness, but to personal trouble. She al
leges that her husband got money from Ell
Their Conner or Booth, excepting $50 from the lat
ter as a loan and the payment of it is not yet
due Her husband she says will come back in
due time and set all things right.
Items from the Courts.
SENTENCE OF BAD BOY.
George Schof, aged eleven. has been com
mitted to the House of Refuge by Judge Irwin